They didn’t put “AI” in the subject line of the emails, so Microsoft doesn’t care…

Looks neat. I wonder if the mail proofread and rewrite will work anywhere other than in Mail or Safari, though. If so, it’'d give Outlook users a way better option than forking over $30/month for Microsoft’s extremely sluggish O365 Copilot. I don’t know if that’s any better on Windows, but the O365 Copilot experience on Mac slowed everything down, workflow-wise, when I tested it out a couple months ago. Click button, wait 30 seconds, repeat. Doing this stuff on-device will be great.

The whole Threshold series is great, especially the audiobook versions. Ray Porter narrates a lot of sci-fi audiobooks, and he’s always great.

So the weird part is it does reliably trigger a failure if you ask directly, but not if you ask as a follow-up.

I first asked

Tell me about Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics

And then I followed up with

Are you bound by them

It didn’t trigger-fail on that.

That’s the point.

I came in expecting a post about Aussies’ favorite greeting/compliment/insult, and was let down.

Trusted certificate exchange negates that scenario.

It sounds like they are working in a standard contact center, to me. It’s sad how much control/surveillance contact center managers wield over the agents. There are good companies out there, but for contact centers, they are unicorns, not the norm. The norm is “track every second, scrutinize any time waste”.

Is this the more edgy way to say “enshitification”?

Any “job” that requires you to pay anything up front is a scam. Period.

SG1 was shot in 4:3 until like season 8 or so.

“Protect your privacy” is literally why we use uBO…

It’s like $20 year, not everything good can be free.

NextDNS.

Also, be wary of relying on anything blocking ads on streaming services this way. They will likely serve them within the video stream, so not network-blockable.

Apple is the least terrible of my list.

ATV is the only box I recommend. I’m anti-Google, don’t trust Amazon (and now their service is going to do ads on a paid Prime membership), and Roku has major privacy issues at least in the past. Curious why you’re seeking an alternative to Apple.

Frequently, yes.

Your claim was denied, due to the insurance provider classifying this treatment as elective or cosmetic, not life saving.

Messenger apps have do not disturb for a reason. I know many people feel like using that is wrong if you’re actually working, but if your output is a measure of your actual work, reducing interruptions is the only reliable way to ensure it without working even more hours (for free if you’re salary).

I put a relative’s mobile phone on NextDNS to block ads for them, and the came back a couple days later noting how weird the ad-free experience was. Thankfully they didn’t want to revert, but yeah, most people are way into advertiser Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

I think I’ve been blocking/combating internet ads for 20+ years at this point.

Site owner and whomever in marketing wrote that. Pure psychopathy, IMO.